World English Bible
"The people strove with Moses, and spoke, saying, "We wish that we had died when our brothers died before Yahweh!"
— Numbers 20:3, World English Bible
“And the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the Lord!”
“And the people strove with Moses, and spake, saying, Would that we had died when our brethren died before Jehovah! ”
“The people contended with Moses, saying,“If only we had died when our brothers died before the LORD!”
“And making a sedition, they said: Would God we had perished among our brethren before the Lord.”
“And the people were angry with Moses and said, If only death had overtaken us when our brothers came to their death before the Lord!”
“And the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the Lord!”
The children of Israel, even the whole congregation, came into the wilderness of Zin in the first month: and the people stayed in Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was buried there.
There was no water for the congregation: and they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron.
The people strove with Moses, and spoke, saying, "We wish that we had died when our brothers died before Yahweh!
Why have you brought the assembly of Yahweh into this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our animals?
Why have you made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in to this evil place? It is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither is there any water to drink."
Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and fell on their faces: and the glory of Yahweh appeared to them.